Some Southern Sonorities #1605
…selections from performances recorded during the recent American Guild of Organists Southeast Regional Convention centered in Charlotte, NC.
Hour 1
NICOLAS de GRIGNY: Ave maris stella (4 versets) –Olivier Latry (1955 Aeolian-Skinner/Byrnes Auditorium, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC)
MARIN MARAIS (arr. Louprette): Alcyone Suite –Renée Ann Louprette (2006 Ruffatti/Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, Charlotte)
DAVID CONTE: Anthem, Lead kindly light (premiere) –Atlanta Master Chorale/Eric Nelson, director; Jonathan Easter (1984 Möller/1st United Methodist Church, Charlotte)
OLIVIER LATRY: Improvisation on a Theme by Ned Rorem –Olivier Latry (Byrnes Auditorium, Winthrop University)
MARCEL DUPRÉ: Laudate Dominum–The Choraliers/Jay Forrest, director; Robert McCormick (1966 Aeolian-Skinner-2014 Parkey/Providence United Methodist Church, Charlotte)
Hour 2
CARLYLE SHARPE: Anthem, I will lift up mine eyes –The Choraliers/Jay Forrest, director; Robert McCormick (1966 Aeolian-Skinner-2014 Parkey/Providence United Methodist Church, Charlotte)
SALLY ANN MORRIS: Hymn, Hear the city filled with singing –Young Voices of the Carolinas/Sandy Holland, director; Festival Brass & Percussion Ensemble; Harry Lynn Huff (1949 Aeolian-Skinner/Covenant Presbyterian Church, Charlotte)
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Fantasy in E-flat –Jack Mitchener (1952 Aeolian-Skinner/Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte)
CALVIN HAMPTON: Prayer & Alleluias – Harry Lynn Huff. DUPRÉ: Jacob combat ave l’Ange (1969 improvisation, reconstructed by David Stech). GEORGE BAKER: Variations on Rouen –Stephen Tharp (Covenant Presbyterian Church)
These events were recorded by James Deal between July 1-4, 2015. Thanks to organizer Timothy Belk and his many volunteers for a superbly satisfying SE-AGO Regional Convention! The next American Guild of Organists National Convention takes place in Houston, TX (June 19-23, 2016). Perhaps our paths will cross there?
Winthrop University’s remarkable 1955 Aeolian-Skinner organ by G. Donald Harrison (Opus 1257 with 67 ranks of pipes, an overlooked treasure repaired without tonal alteration), will be featured in an afternoon concert by James O’Donnell of Westminster Abbey on February 14, 2016.
Explore further the resources of Opus 1257 with these additional online performances by Olivier Latry (r. 7/1/2015) from Winthrop University’s James F. Byrnes Auditorium:
VINCENT PAULET (b. 1962): (2011, commissioned in celebration of the 800th anniversary of Reims Cathedral, where Nicolas de Grigny served as organist; the work is compositionally related to…but sounds nothing like…the fugual second verse from Grigny’s Ave maris stella)
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: , fr Livre de Saint Sacrament
LOUIS VIERNE:
MAURICE DURUFLÉ:
